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activity, with 40 to 50 craftsmen working on any given day to comople - Best At What They Do plete the building for its late fall ude first and last names of individuals and place of business opening. rtender __________________________________ Jason Lawrence, Tillamook Bay ss / Manager _____________________________ Community College’s (TBCC) ach _____________________________________ WILL CHAPPELL Director of Facilities and Safety, hetician _________________________________ Headlight Editor said that the project is on track, ancial Advisor ____________________________ with framing 90% complete as of hing Guide _______________________________ last week and work underway on illamook County’s budget od Server ________________________________ mechanical systems on the buildsituation is looking stabler ir Stylist _________________________________ ing’s first floor. over the next three fiscal years alth Professional __________________________ Lawrence took the Headlight should an increase to the transient urance Agent ____________________________Herald for a tour of the construclodging tax pass in May and comtructor __________________________________tion site last week and showed missioners adopt several other nicurist __________________________________off the new facility’s features, measures put forward by a budget ssage Therapist ___________________________headlined by the new event center working group last summer and ortgage ____________________________ which will be able to accommofall, Agent according to Mike Gleason, a n-profit _________________________________ date more than 350 for banquets financial consultant for the county. armacist _________________________________ and over 400 in a theatre-style Gleason relayed the positive icemessage / Fire / EMT seating arrangement. The large at a___________________________ commissioners’ work operty Manager ___________________________ room will feature three double session preparing for the upcomal Estate Agent ____________________________ doors opening onto the courtyard ing budget process on March 28, at ritual Leader______________________________ which Commissioner Paul Fournier between the new building and the also unveiled a plan to further shore college’s current building, and will be divisible, with three temporary up the county’s financial situation by using restricted lodging Headlight Heraldtransient Citizen walls providing five potential conPhoto by Will Chappell tax (TLT) funds to support the parks figurations. An interior view into the event center. The new second floor administrative suite will contain 18 offices. VOTE ONLINE operations. Lawrence said this flexibility department’s www.tillamookheadlightherald.com will allow the space to host indoorThe meeting began with Gleaoutdoor events, like the college’s son, who hasBALLOTS been consulting with Herald RETURN PAPER to the Headlight begin installing the waterproof simulator will be supplemented by meeting room and a new adminannual North Coast Throwdown the at county on ways to address office 1906 Second St., Tillamook, ORa membrane this week. Lawrence istrative suite for the college. The live ambulances, donated by Adcornhole tournament, and use the budget crunch caused by declinsaid that the project remains on administrative suite will feature ventist Health Tillamook, which MAIL to P.O. Box 444, Tillamook, OR 97141 space as classrooms as needed. ing timber revenues since last fall, pace for completion in November will be able to access the lab by an 18 offices and a smaller meeting givingmust a primer on government and to begin hosting classes in room, as well as a staff lounge. exterior garage door. Votes be received by May 15th The event center is also connected to a catering kitchen, which will budgeting. Gleason that Original ballots only, no copies. explained Please write clearly. January 2026. The second floor will also In the nursing lab, patient simuOnly one ballot per reader. feature stainless steel workspaces, the county had 59 funds that were The project will also see the feature a display wall for rotating lators will mimic various medical Enter per category. freezers, and warming and cooling conditions and be controlled by partoneofperson/business its overall budget and that college’s entrance relocated from exhibits from local artists and an esses can only be voted for service they provide. boxes. most of those were dedicated and It’s Marolf Loop Road to Brookfield, open walkway below skylights, instructors, while four treatment Elsewhere on the first floor restricted to supporting specific allowing natural light to illuminate at the rear of campus, and parking bays featuring full hospital beds are an X-Ray room, and labs for operations or projects, while the capacity significantly expanded. both the first and second floors. will give students an opportunity nursing and EMT students, both of to experience a clinical setting. general fund was the one over The $23.8-million project is beIn addition to mechanical work, which commissioners have the most which will feature state-of-the-art ing supported by a voter-approved Lawrence said that progress was On the building’s second floor, technology to help with training. discretion. bond and Lawrence said that it is there will be two classrooms, three almost complete on sheathing the In the EMT lab, an ambulance Gleason also explained that on budget. roof and he hoped workers would small lounges for students, a large budgeting was a complex process of predicting the revenues that would flow into and out of the various funds over the course of the year, and that beginning and ending fund balances were illusory due to a constant flow of funds. Of Tillamook County’s 59 funds, Gleason said that the vast majority were in strong shape and that the general fund and solid waste fund were the only two that needed to be watched on an ongoing basis. ects to the housing commission in January. floor. The building, which fronts the north side of WILL CHAPPELL After the overview, Gleason pivThe two projects that were not recommended Doug Henson Plaza on Second Street, will have Headlight Editor oted to discussing the situation with for funding were Alder Creek Commons, a retail spaces as well as a ninth apartment not Tillamook County’s general fund. redevelopment of the Nehalem Bay House into included in the grant process on the first floor. Heading into last year’s special illamook County’s Board of Commission- a 24-apartment, senior-living complex, and a Funds will only support costs associated with the budget group meetings, the county ers approved housing commission recom- B’Nai Brith proposal to build 56 to 64 units in second-story apartments. was facing a budget gap of $2 to mendations for awarding $400,000 in grants Rockaway Beach that is in its early stages. After Tillamook Bay Commons is a 36-unit pro$3.6 million over each of the next from the county’s Housing Production Solutions presenting to the housing commission, the Alder posed complex to the east of Adventist Health five years and a $3 million gap in Fund to six projects. Tillamook, that would contain one- and two-bedCreek Commons project received state funding the current year which had been Tillamook County Housing Coordinator room apartments affordable to residents making sufficient to support its completion and B’Nai covered by allowing the beginning Parker Sammons presented the recommendations Brith developers told housing commissioners between 80% and 120% AMI. The project is beto commissioners at the meeting after housing Tillamook Beekeepers their project would move forward with or Association withing led by Maker Studios, which is in the process commissioners approved them at their March out a county grant, leading commissioners to of becoming Oregon’s first housing nonprofit 7th Annual Beehive Raffle meeting. prioritize other projects that needed the funding. and focuses exclusively on affordable and workSee BUDGET, Page A3 Win this hand-crafted, hand-painted The three-year-old Housing Production Soluforce housing projects in Tillamook County. Two grants of $100,000 were approved, with beehive created by a local artisan tions Fund is financed by a fee on short-term one going to the National Bank Building project The project’s $100,000 award will be divided beekeeper and painted by our youngest rental licenses and supports below-market-rate beekeepers, PaisleyBay Andrus (age 9), two tranches, with $50,000 awarded iminto in Tillamook and the other to the Tillamook Ashton Andrus (age 7), Hazel and multifamily housing projects across the county, mediately to help with the costs of nonprofit Commons project, also in Tillamook. Russell Stelzig (twins, age 9) having awarded $1.1 million in its first two years certification and the second $50,000 deliverable The National Bank Building project, led by and helping to open around 150 units so far. Terry Phillips, will add eight apartments affordThe hive will be raffled at the Eight projects sought grants from the fund able to residents making 100% of theHeadlight area’s Herald See COUNTY, Page A3 this year, with developers presenting their projHome and Garden Show median income (AMI) on the building’s second th
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